The family of a teacher who was fatally stabbed by a pupil during a Spanish lesson have launched a crowd-funding appeal to press for a fresh investigation into her death.
The husband and children of Ann Maguire said that the full facts of her death were not made public because no inquest has yet been held and the pupil who stabbed her pleaded guilty, so evidence was not cross-examined in court.
They believe that child protection professionals should have been “on alert” about the risk posed by William Cornick, then 15, who took two knives to school, attacked Mrs Maguire in a classroom in Leeds and chased her, stabbing her seven times.
Andrew Poole, Mrs Maguire’s son, said on the family’s appeal page hosted by the website CrowdJustice: “It is our view that there were circumstances and events which should have put the professionals on alert and may have led to my mother still being alive today if things had been handled differently.”